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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 8h

How is it that every new video they put out is worse than the previous one, and cost considerably more than what they pay their speakers

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 9h

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

I'm going to Bourgeois King, can I get you anything?

julia 🦄 @hypv.bsky.social · 5d

it is beautiful that burger and bourgeois come from the same root word

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you! 😍

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 22h

Hello! Please add my studio, @twirlbound.com! We’re a 16 person indie from the Netherlands and make cut, colorful open world games. We released our 2nd game, The Knightling, last month :)

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 1d

But a good mechanical pencil is SO GOOD

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 2d

The tiniest dictator

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 2d

Coming out of retirement like

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 3d

These are both things I am interested in 🧀 ✨

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 4d

I’m so sorry. Sending y’all lots of love and light 💜💜💜

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 4d

Spoiler: you're actually quite shit at peace, or soccer, or whatever this analogy is

JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 4d

This is the same vibes as when you are 6 years old and lose your peewee soccer game and your mom takes you to McDonald’s on the way home as a consolation prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 4d

See, it's not fucking hard to foster the community and audience you want for your game and stick to your principles!

More of this energy please 😎

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 4d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine being a samurai and getting impaled on the battlefield only to discover that you were defeated by the funny mouse sword guy

The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 5d

Title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

Date: ca. 1615–1868

Culture: Japanese

Medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

Credit Line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 5d

Haha it was Chairman Mouse 😅

I skated most recently with Rat City and captained one of their home teams, but I’ve been in retirement since 2019 so here’s hoping my body remembers how to do anything haha

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 5d

I love derby! I did it for years but my body is wrecked at this point, maybe I’ll just skate around but try not to do it at a competitive level, haha 😅

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no I’ve been invited to check out the local roller derby scene and my joints are all crying in anticipation already but I really wanna skateeeeee

a woman is talking to a man and says the heart wants what it wants

ALT: a woman is talking to a man and says the heart wants what it wants

media.tenor.com

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 6d

Rene is a saint in this industry

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 6d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 9d

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 8d

Let them out, they deserve to be free

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Twirlbound @twirlbound.com · 8d

Today ends the #SteamAutumnSale! Don't forget to get that discount while you still can, for those rainy autumn days! 🍂🍁

Twirlbound @twirlbound.com · 13d

The Knightling is 33% off!! 🤑
Follow the link in the thread to get it! 👇
#SteamAutumnSale

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Jay @envinyon.bsky.social · 9d

someone in a podcast I listened to today said like "all the developers that worked on legendary games in the 90s would never be able to get into the industry today" and I think that might be entirely accurate

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